Using standardized SI prefixes

Sam Morris sam at robots.org.uk
Thu Jun 21 01:27:16 UTC 2007


On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:11:23 -0400, Ivan Jager wrote:

> How many packages can you name that measure bytes in powers of 10? Are
> there any?

debian-installer does so (unless you are creating LVM Logical Volumes, in 
which case the units that you specify volume sizes in are base-2, but the 
units that volume sizes are displayed in remain baase-10)... :)

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